During my teen years I found my music affinity. I resented pop, country just isn't my thing, rap got a little too hardcore for me. There were always exceptions, since music is fluid and some thing just don't fall in a specific genre or better the song is just that good that you cannot deny it. Nevertheless, I gravitated to alternative music.
I can say that grunge was my gateway genre, because it was through that I found other bands not specific to the type. I remember some bands saying they were influenced by the Smiths, or The Clash, or any others. I noticed some fell in the New Wave and others were rather alternative for their time. If I recall, Bauhaus was a totally different sound then anything that was their contemporary. I basked in the glory of all things grunge and alternative and dark (not too dark - got into goth what people call emo now - but not too heavy).
Fast forward 15 years. Grunge is now a memory of the 90s. I know my taste changed since then. I no longer resent pop - probably in a happier place in my mind now. Still not into country much, even during its resurgence earlier this decade. Rap is meh. Really got into dance; probably a backlash from liking pop. But what happened to Alternative? What happened to that musical niche I had what seemed so long ago? It, like me, changed. I think we have been so far apart for so long we both changed into something different. I listen to the Alternative station in Seattle and it doesn't feel right. I look at the charts and they seem kinda so-so. I looked to the old station I listened to when I was in San Francisco, still there but very similar to the station up here.
I think I need to revisit my old taste in music. I need to rekindle that relationship I had with alternative. I look back and notice my favorites were not always the ones that made it to the top of the charts, time for me to look a the guys and girls who stay below the music industries radar. It's my own personal music second revolution.
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